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Date:      Sat, 09 Jun 2012 10:31:17 +0300
From:      Mikolaj Golub <trociny@freebsd.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Kostik Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SuperPages utilization survey
Message-ID:  <86sje5kkl6.fsf@kopusha.home.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAF-QHFXsi3SaF-rmFK-qM89LfnStKwRWN1-HRM4yg4Bt_SFAOg@mail.gmail.com> (Ivan Voras's message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:54:48 %2B0200")
References:  <jqac8f$6mn$1@dough.gmane.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206011429160.20357@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <CAF-QHFXsi3SaF-rmFK-qM89LfnStKwRWN1-HRM4yg4Bt_SFAOg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:54:48 +0200 Ivan Voras wrote:

 IV> On 1 June 2012 14:35, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
 >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/stuff/spsurvey.py

 ...

 IV> If anyone posts more data, I'll analyse it. I'm more worried about the
 IV> granularity of procstat, where it marks the entire region if a single
 IV> superpage exists in it - it means any such analysis is only
 IV> approximate.

Here is a patch (for kernel and procstat) that allows to see amount of pages
mapped to superpages.

http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/procstat-superpages.cnt.1.patch

Not sure it is useful enough to be committed.

-- 
Mikolaj Golub



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